Rock Cycle
This rock forms through the cementation of sediments.
What is sedimentary rock?
The two types of crust located on the lithosphere.
What are the continental crust and oceanic crust?
The name for magma once it reaches the earth's surface.
What is lava?
This is the process of rocks being broken down into smaller sediments/particles.
What is weathering?
Rock, minerals, and organic matter in which plants can grow.
What is soil?
This rock is the result of magma cooling and crystallizing.
What is igneous rock?
This movement causes the plates to move.
What are convection currents?
This volcano is formed by the eruption of highly fluid (low viscosity) lava, which travels farther and forms thinner flows.
What is a shield volcano?
This is the movement of rocks and sediment that have been broken apart.
What is erosion?
These are the four main components of healthy soil.
This rock is the result of any other rock or mineral undergoing intense heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
A reverse fault is caused by this type of stress.
What is compression?
The location within the earth where an earthquake rupture starts.
What is the focus?
This is the process of sediments, soil, and rocks being added to a landform or landmasses.
What is deposition?
When minerals are dissolved in upper layers and carried down to lower soil layers.
What is leaching?
This type of rock contains fossils.
What is sedimentary rock?
A subduction zone occurs at this type of plate boundary.
What is a convergent boundary?
The area surrounding the Pacific Ocean in which volcanoes and earthquakes are more likely to occur.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Acid rain breaking down a marble statue.
What is chemical weathering?
This is the largest and most coarse soil type.
What is sand?
These two types of rock are the most common beneath the Earth's crust.
What are igneous and metamorphic?
The Himalayan Mountains are an example of this type of plate boundary.
What is a continental-continental convergent boundary?
This type of volcano is built by alternating layers of lava flows and ash flows and can be very explosive.
What is a composite volcano?
Also acceptable: Stratovolcano
Erosion resulting in landslides or mudslides.
What is erosion by gravity?
This is the soil texture for a soil sample containing more than 60% clay.
What is clay?